MALLERY. | CHART OF OJIBWA CHANT. 
T am floating down smoothly. 
Spirit otter, swimming; outer lines are river banks. 
Rest. 
I have finished my drum. 
Spirit holding drum; sound ascending. 
My body is like unto you. 
This is the mi’ gis shell—the special symbol of the Mide’ wiwin. 
Hear me, thou, who art talking to me. 
Listening, and wanting others (spirits) to hear. 
See what I am taking. 
Spirit (Mide’) taking ‘‘ medicine root.” 
See me whose head is out of the water. 
Otters, two spirits, the left-hand one being the ‘‘speaker.” 
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The Midé’ song, Pl. xvi, D, was also copied by “Little Frenchman” 
upon birchbark, from one in the possession of his preceptor, but upon 
which he had not yet received careful instruction; henee the incom- 
pleteness of some of his interpretations. It is reproduced from PI. XXII, 
B, of the Seventh Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology. 
I am sitting down with my pipe. 
Man sitting, holding a pipe. He has been called upon to 
“make medicine.” *The short lines beneath the body represent 
that he is seated. He holds a fillled pipe which he is not yet 
sinoking. 
I, me the spirit, the spirit of the owl. 
Owl, held by Mide’; arm above bird. This character appears 
upon the Grand Medicine chart from Red ake) as passing from 
the mide’ lodge to the ghost lodge. 
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